Re: Caldera installation - something Debian should learn
On 23-Apr-99 R Garth Wood wrote:
> To sum up:
> Databases offer:
> better speed
> smaller size.
> other inhereted database properties
The size and speed argument is completely and utterly meaningless. Oooooh, wow,
I can save a few K, and speed up program loading by a whole 0.5ms or so. That's
definately worth losing the human readability of the file.
> text files have:
> the "advantage" that they can be edited easily
> consider: what if you're logging in remotely and they
> only have telnet or it's a slow connection?
What about it? How could one possibly edit a binary database if one is
logging in remotely and one only has telnet and/or a slow connection? It's at
least in the realm of possibility with a straight text file.
Isaac
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